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In Defense of the “Good” Porn Producers

The following post is something I’ve been wanting to get off my chest for awhile and ended up taking the form of a reply in the “comments” section of a popular urban gay porn blog which recently featured an article about the murder of another porn producer by a former model in which the blogger and several commenters once again seemed to imply – without any evidence or apparent compassion – that the producer was somehow to blame for his own brutal murder. Some even seemed to be rooting for the same thing to happen to me!

This was just the latest and most extreme version of a disturbing trend I’ve been noticing on various porn blogs and social media lately where porn producers and models are casually and in some cases viciously mocked, attacked, slandered, and judged with self-righteous contempt by the very same audience watching and enjoying our movies.

So the following are a few thoughts that I’ve been wanting to share for the past couple months, and just kind of boiled to the surface when I saw the calloused way some people were reacting to the tragic story of yet another porn producer’s senseless murder. I’m sure the people who most need to read this probably won’t ever see it, but I still wanted to get it off my chest and speak up in defense of the “good” producers out there:

I agree that this is a conversation worth having, and shady business dealings like those you describe should be exposed and opposed by consumers, models, AND other producers.

But I don’t think all of this vague talk about anonymous “evil” producers does anyone any good or takes any concrete or positive steps toward accomplishing these goals. All it ends up doing is painting the entire adult entertainment industry with an unfairly broad brush and perpetuating a wildly inaccurate stereotype of the adult industry as some kind of seedy and semi-criminal underworld of greedy, predatory producers and drug-addicted, suicidal models. Which I’m sure is perfectly fine for many of your readers, since this only makes it easier to justify their regular consumption of stolen/pirated content and total lack of financial support for the porn studios they regularly watch. But I digress.

There are dishonest and shady people in every business, and the adult industry is no exception. But in the nearly eight years I’ve been working in this industry (starting out as a lover of good porn much like yourself and most of your readers), I have yet to meet anyone even close to resembling the almost comically villainous caricatures regularly described on this blog. The vast  majority of people I’ve met in this industry are honest, hard-working, and shockingly “normal” people who have a passion for porn and are just trying to make a living like anyone else.

One of my very first friends and mentors in the industry (the Marketing Director for Badpuppy) was actually a straight and married “Soccer Mom” with two teenage kids, and the sweetest, kindest person you could ever meet. Another friend and mentor was a gay college professor who started his site as a side hobby and over time turned it into a successful business after a lot of sleepless nights and hard work. Most of us are not the ruthless “pimps” you’d think based on this blog, and we try our best to treat our models and business associates with the same honesty and respect we’d expect in return.

Which is why I think you should start putting your money where your mouth is and calling out these shady porn studios by name. Instead of offering the disclaimer that you’re only talking about SOME but not ALL porn producers, why not be specific and tell us who you’re talking about? Who EXACTLY are these “evil” producers and who are the “good” ones? And are you willing to boycott these studios both on this blog and as a porn viewer?

And just to be clear, I’m talking about responsibly researched and fact-based reporting, not simply repeating unsubstantiated gossip or hearsay from delusional Internet trolls or disgruntled and dishonest ex-models with chips on their shoulders. If your allegations are accurate, they more than likely won’t sue, and even if they do, what better opportunity to actually PROVE and EXPOSE the unethical behavior described in this post?

This clarity and specificity will ultimately be better for EVERYONE – viewers, models, AND the “good” producers who treat their models with  honesty, fairness, and respect, and don’t like seeing their entire industry constantly being maligned and attacked on porn blogs like this.

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Cast Your Votes For The Best of BBA 2015!

You’ve seen my own personal picks for the best scenes from last year. Now it’s YOUR TURN to let me know what you think by choosing YOUR favorite models and scenes from 2015! You’ll be able to see the voting results in live time to compare your own personal favorites with the rest of BBA’s members and fans.

To keep things as fair and accurate as possible, you’re only allowed to vote once, so please take your time and choose your answers carefully. I’ve made a special exception for the “Favorite Black-Only Scene” category since there are so many scenes to choose from in that category. You can choose your top THREE scenes in that particular category.

While I’ve included the scenes starring Knockout and Staxx, I decided not to include them in the model categories since they’re special guest “porn stars” and I didn’t think it would be fair to put them up against BBA’s regular amateur models.

If you feel like explaining or defending any of your choices, please feel free to share your thoughts as comments on this blog entry. I’d love to hear what you think! If you have any ideas or requests for additional polls, just let me know and I’ll consider adding them.

If you have an active BBA membership and/or BBA credits, please also take a few minutes to “like” your favorite BBA models and scenes (one of the added features on the newly redesigned site). Especially your older favorites, since the newer models and scenes tend to get more visibility and attention and I’d like the listings of most popular scenes to eventually become a more accurate reflection of all the scenes over time.

I hope you have fun picking out your favorites and reminiscing with me about the past year!

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Michael Galletta Counts Down BBA’s Ten Best Scenes of 2015

Every year I’m asked by fans how I can possibly meet or exceed the high standard set by the previous year, and every year it feels like an impossible task.

After a year that had introduced Isaiah and his shocking “gay for pay” journey leading all the way up to him finally giving up his ass, the long-awaited “reunion” between D-Rel and Suspense, and Freaky J‘s “epidemic” gay porn debut, I thought for sure there was nowhere to go but DOWN heading into the new year.

Now that I’m looking back at the new models and scenes from this past year, and planning for the new year to come, I’m relieved and proud to be able to say that 2015 was almost certainly BBA’s best year so far!

For starters, I can’t recall any prior year that has introduced *so many* stand-out performers who so quickly won us over and earned their spots among BBA’s most popular performers. Of course the epitome of this was our new star Apollo, whose striking good looks, flawless muscular body, and eagerness to please propelled him to BBA stardom practically overnight. The kind of performer who only comes along once every decade, not a day goes by that I don’t thank the porn gods for sending him BBA’s way 😉 !

If you’d told me earlier last year that 2015 would also introduce models to RIVAL Apollo’s popularity and charm, I would have said you were crazy! Yet somehow the year also miraculously included the discoveries of Blake Bishop and Ross, both of whom will no doubt give Apollo a run for his money in the vote for “favorite new model” of the year!

Whether it was Noah returning after over two years, or Rico finally getting fucked again and like never before, 2015 also saw the surprising returns of several much-missed fan favorites that many of us (myself included) had all but given up hope of ever seeing again!

Of course the MUST-SEE highlights of the year, and the scenes that had everyone talking, were the “taking down” of not just one but TWO of black gay porn’s most attractive and popular “tops”!

Which brings me to my list of BBA’s Ten Best Scenes of 2015, the scenes which for a variety of reasons explained below are the ones that kept me “cumming” back for repeat viewings again and again, and stood out from the crowded pack as my proudest achievements and personal favorites:

(In Descending Order)

 #1. All Bets Are Off

All Bets Are OffI’ve been pursuing “strict tops” for over six years, and I have honestly never encountered anyone as stubbornly resistant to the idea of “bottoming” on camera as Staxx. I have *over 100 emails* saved between me and Staxx to remind me of the stressful, exhausting, and seemingly hopeless pursuit of one of black gay porn’s most breathtaking but tragically “off-limits” asses, the vast majority consisting of Staxx bluntly informing me in no uncertain terms that him getting fucked on camera was NEVER going to happen!

All of that makes this one of the sweetest porn “conquests” I’ve ever achieved. The sexy basketball player’s highly-prized bubble-butt didn’t come easy or cheap, but damn, was it worth every penny! Just seeing ANY dick finally enter that ass would have been epic enough, but the fact that the scene also included the cocky “top” strapped to the bed, yelling and cursing and growling as those glorious twin globes finally got split open and plundered by Knockout’s TREE TRUNK of a dick makes this a historic “take-down” porn classic that I will watch over and over again for the rest of my life.

Easily my proudest achievement of the year, and my personal favorite out of the Atlanta trilogy!

 #2. His First Straight Boy

His First Straight BoyFilmed as a kind of “bonus” scene from my Atlanta visit and greatly underestimated by me at the time it was filmed, this scene turned out to be many viewers’ favorite, and one of my personal favorites as well! Hot as they were, none of Isaiah’s previous “bottoming” efforts gave us any indication that he had this performance within him, simmering just under the surface. Isaiah will probably always be somewhat stoic and stiff, but this was definitely the closest to “unleashed” we’ve seen him so far – and boy, was it a sight to behold! I’ve already watched this scene more times than I’d like to admit, and the sexy sounds of Isaiah finally grunting “FUCK THAT ASS!” over and over while Knockout’s huge, RAW dick aggressively pounds his juicy bubble-butt makes me bust every time. Of course seeing Isaiah return the favor by plunging his own massive, curved dick in and out of Knockout’s tight, “top-only” ass makes this an instant “flip-flop” classic that you truly have to see to believe!

#3. Straight Boys Taste Better

Straight Boys Taste BetterIt’s not often that a relatively brief oral-only scene earns almost unanimously enthusiastic reviews from BBA’s viewers and lands a spot on this list. But this scene’s simplicity and spontaneity captures “gay for pay” porn at its purest and most authentic best. Without ever once using the big dick for which he’s well-known, Blake Bishop still managed to seize our attention and prove he’s a confident and capable performer with a very bright future in this business. But it was Ross’s comically expressive reactions to his first blowjob and rimjob from another guy, unfolding in close to real time toward an unplanned and unforgettable climax, that made this one of those rare and special scenes that had us stroking our dicks and laughing out loud at the same time.

#4. Apollo: The Next Level

Apollo: The Next LevelAnother oral-only scene where the chemistry between the models and hotness of the action surpassed many of the year’s hardcore scenes and proved you don’t always need a hard dick thrusting in and out of an ass for a scene to be worth MULTIPLE “nutts.” Even though Apollo had already shown flashes of potential in his earlier scenes, it wasn’t until this scene that he proved himself to be a true STAR. The chemistry between Apollo and Saint – both ex-Army guys and fathers of young sons – was off the charts and the scene treated us to some of the SLOPPIEST, WETTEST, and HOTTEST dick-sucking and ass-eating of the year!

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Website Update: Behind the Scenes With Knockout and Staxx

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This week we’re taking you behind the scenes of two of last year’s most unforgettable and popular scenes with this collection of NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN bloopers, outtakes, and action-packed bonus footage from You Bet Your Ass and All Bets Are Off – including more tongue-kissing, dick-sucking, ass-eating, and FUCKING!

It’s an intimate and entertaining look back at some of the conversations, humor, and action that didn’t make it into the edited versions of these shockingly hot and historic scenes that viewers have called “legendary,” “outstanding,” and “the porn scenes of the decade.”

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Knockout and Staxx

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Website Update: Santa’s Special Surprise (Part Two)

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

As we wrap up a year that introduced some of BBA’s hottest models and featured some of our very best scenes, it only seemed fitting to celebrate the holiday season and welcome in the new year with a “special surprise” for BBA’s viewers.

Those of you who’ve already watched Part One of this action-packed holiday special know by now that it concluded with Apollo finally offering up his ass after stubbornly keeping it off-limits for almost a year.

“I need one of y’all to FUCK me!” Apollo told his co-stars with a seductive smile – words he swore would never come out of his mouth as recently as LESS THAN A WEEK before this was filmed!

If you’re one of the many viewers who have been patiently (and in some cases, NOT so patiently) waiting to see this sexy straight ex-Army guy’s perfect ass stuffed with DICK, then you won’t want to miss this shocking conclusion as one of BBA’s most popular “gay for pay” models surprises his fans with a special Christmas present they’ll never forget!

No, you’re not imagining things after drinking too much eggnog and rum 😉 . Almost a full year after his experimentation with gay sex began, Apollo finally BENDS OVER and surrenders his beautiful butt to another man’s RAW dick for the VERY FIRST TIME! (Yes, in another wickedly thrilling twist to this scene, Apollo agrees to get fucked WITHOUT A CONDOM!).

Watch in disbelief and amazement as Apollo raises his muscular legs in the air and finally gives another man ULTIMATE access to that most prized and protected part of his flawless young body.

His eyes clenched tightly shut in determined endurance, Apollo gasps and curses and groans with a mix of pleasure and pain as Ross slowly sinks his fingers and later his long dick deep inside that tight, VIRGIN ass….

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Website Update: Santa’s Special Surprise (Part One)

Mello, Apollo, and Ross
We’re celebrating the holiday season this year with an action-packed special featuring the surprise return of three of BBA’s most popular “gay for pay” models – including two of the hottest straight boys introduced this past year!

Join Apollo, Ross, and Mello for an intimate holiday gathering as they joke around and get better acquainted, swapping stories about their favorite BBA scenes and experiences from the past year.

It wouldn’t be a true Christmas party without gifts, so the guys open up their presents which turn out to be sexy holiday costumes that they change into before the real fun begins….

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Part One of this special holiday threesome includes tons of nipple-licking, dick-sucking, and ass-eating as these three sexy “gay for pay” models – all with lucky girlfriends waiting for them at home – take things to a whole new level in order to give their fans a Christmas present they’ll never forget.
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Website Update: The Puppy and the Tyga #2

Kody and Lil Tyga

“He looks JUST LIKE CORY!”

That was the very first thing I heard out of Lil Tyga‘s mouth when he first came through the door with our newest model Kody shortly after picking him up from the airport.

Even though I hadn’t originally planned to pair Lil Tyga with Kody for his first visit, the two of them seemed to have an instant attraction and chemistry and hit it off so well that I knew SOMETHING was going to happen between them – the only question was whether I filmed it or not!

And while a selfish part of me wanted to be the lucky first to sample Kody’s sweet mouth and tight ass (with more than just my fingers this time), I also found myself turned on by the idea of turning over the adorably cute “college boy” to a sexy and aggressive older veteran like Tyga. I figured he could take the nervous newbie under his wing almost like an adopted “baby brother” – with benefits 😉 !

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Even though he had found Kody cute from the start, it wasn’t until he asked him to stand up and show off his slim, youthful body that Tyga noticed Kody’s surprisingly prominent bubble-butt.

“You got a lot of ass to be a skinny dude!” Lil Tyga exclaims with surprise and growing excitement as he strips the shy boy out of his clothes….

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See for yourself what happens when this cute and innocent “puppy” meets the ravenous older “Tyga” for an amateur action debut that you don’t want to miss.
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Website Update: Best I’ve Ever Had

Young Montanna & Blake Bishop

Young Montanna is back for his second shoot and excited to be back in front of the camera again. He admits that after watching his amateur action debut, he feels like he still needs to step up his game, and promises that “Round Two” is going to be even better!

I figured what better way to put the new kid’s true potential to the test than by pairing him with one of BBA’s most well-endowed and demanding new “tops”?

Blake Bishop has already done his research by watching Young Montanna’s promising debut, and seems eager to sample the skinny, tattooed boy’s tight ass for himself.

“You’re going to learn the wonders of Blake Bishop’s BIG DICK!” Blake Bishop teases the nervous newbie shortly after meeting him for the very first time.

Of course watching these two complete strangers nervously joke and flirt and check each other out only makes it ten times hotter when they get MUCH better acquainted just a few minutes later….

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“DAMN!” Blake Bishop gasps with surprise when the cute black twink’s freakishly long dick first pops out of his black boxer-briefs.

Enjoy an intimate front-row seat for this action-packed session that includes lots of sloppy-wet dick-sucking, ass-eating, and butt-fucking as these two hung and horny black boys discover and explore each others’ bodies for the very first time.

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Blog Disappearance & Email Issues

Over the weekend, some of you might have tried to visit the blog only to find that it had mysteriously disappeared. Long story short, the BBA blog and email accounts are hosted on a separate server from the new website, and the hosting company that manages that server recently upgraded everything to a brand-new server without letting me know in advance, which unfortunately led to the blog being down over the weekend and the site’s email accounts not working for the past 24 to 48 hours.

All blog comments posted over the weekend seem to have been lost during this transition, so if you left a blog comment on the most recent scene, please take a minute to post it again if it’s not too much trouble. If you’ve tried communicating with me by email over the past 24 hours or so and not yet received a response, please try sending your email again and it should now work.

I apologize for the inconvenience, and everything now seems to be up and running like normal again. Again, this had no impact on the actual website and only affected this blog and the site’s email accounts.

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